1958:
Basketball player Carl Bailey was born in Birmingham.
2006:
Birmingham Children’s Theatre actor John Hallum died in Birmingham.
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A look back: April 23
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Comparisons of biblical proportion today in City Hall
There are days when you just want to curl up and hide; unfortunately that was one of those days for me, so I was not in attendance at the weekly city council meeting when Mayor Larry Langford drew comparisons between The Magic City and the City of Nineveh in the language used for his proclamation announcing “a day of prayer in sackcloth and ashes”. Like we said earlier, today was a busy day for the city’s chief executive.
Check out the Birmingham Weekly for a PDF of the proclamation and some video to go along with it.
You may want to let us know what you think about it… preferably over on Magic City Question.
Tagged AL, Alabama, April 25, Birmingham, City of Birmingham, day of prayer, information, Larry Langford, link, mayor, opinion, proclamation
Langford’s had a busy day…
Mayor Langford speaks to students at Phillips Academy during Wachovia’s Way2Save event on April 22. acnatta/Flickr.
Larry Langford’s been a busy individual this morning. Here he’s seen talking to area school children during today’s Wachovia Way2Save event. Representatives from four area schools each received $2,000 for their scholarship funds at the event. The mayor spent most of the time he was at the event taking pictures with the children and answering questions about this morning’s approval of his proposal to pay for free bus rides in Birmingham beginning in May and running through August by the City Council.
According to the blog post made earlier today by The Birmingham News, the BJCTA board still needs to approve the proposal during their board meeting tomorrow.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, bus service, City Council, event, Free, Larry Langford, passes, proposal, Wachovia
On the agenda: Amnesty and parties
The mayor presents his proposal to grant amnesty to those area drivers that have outstanding parking and traffic tickets during the month of July for its first reading. (item 21)
Approval of the use of Caldwell Park for the Alabama Symphony’s summer concert series appears as a consent item this morning as well. (item 16)
Money being held in escrow by the BJCC Authority, more than $3 million listed as fees in lieu of taxes, may be used by the BJCC to cover the cost of repairs to the facility, with the purpose and uses of additional monies collected being determined at a later date. (item 29).
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Help the Big Guy atop Red Mountain breathe a little easier
Now, tomorrow’s Earth Day (officially), at least the one that everyone’s familiar with (maybe)… that’s another post. Anyway, there are a lot of things available to people in Birmingham tomorrow because of the observance that will help make the community a better place to live, whether financially or environmentally. One of the environmental options includes driving up to visit Vulcan atop Red Mountain and getting a free 90 second emissions test beginning at 10 a.m. Click on the link to see the rest of the scheduled testings for this year if you can’t make it tomorrow. There’s more…
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Alabama Partners for Clean Air, April 22, Birmingham, Earth Day, emissions, Free, information, link, testing, Vulcan Park, website
Learning to save the fun way tomorrow in Linn Park
Mayor Langford will be among the many in attendance at Linn Park tomorrow morning beginning at 11 a.m. as part of Wachovia’s Way2Save Challenge. Birmingham is the current stop on an 11-city tour that aims to educate consumers about the importance of saving. Some of our city’s youngest residents, pre-K students from John Herbert Phillips Academy, will learn to save their pennies in a piggy bank activity, while some of our other residents will be trying to make sure that more students have a chance to further their education, in a fun way…
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, financial education, Larry Langford, Linn Park, scholarship grab, Wachovia, Way2Save
Earth Day plans?
BTW – how about letting us know what your plans are for Earth Day over on Magic City Question?
Just wondering…
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